Punjab Government employees are up in arms against the Congress-led State Government’s for its new diktat “no work no pay” for those indulging in staging protests or dharnas affecting official functioning.
Slamming the Government for its ‘no-pay-no-work’ formula, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has expressed solidarity with the employees saying that the Government should first apply the same formula upon itself.
“Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh is trying to suppress the dissenting voices against the dispensation’s tyranny and highhandedness instead of delivering on its poll promises…The anti-people stance of the government is untenable besides being undemocratic,” said the AAP’s state core committee chairman and MLA Principal Budh Ram, Deputy Leader Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Sarabjit Kaur Manuke and political review committee chairman Harchand Singh Bursat, in a joint statement.
The party demanded that the Government should immediately withdraw the “anti-employee” order sooner than later. Principal Budh Ram questioned the Chief Minister as to how many of the poll promises listed in the 129-page party manifesto were fulfilled. “The government should come up with its three-year report card on this,” he said.
Manuke said that Capt Amarinder government was not only anti-employee but also anti-farm laborers, the unemployed, traders and the businessmen, the poor and dalit, who were resorting to protest on the roads, due to its stubborn stance.
Bursat added that like the previous Badal Government, the Capt Amarinder Government too was promoting private sector by pushing the public sector in the State in disarray.
AAP leaders said that the party would stand through thick and thin with the employees and all the other oppressed categories who were protesting for their legitimate rights on the road.
Being the principal opposition party, AAP was committed to raise its voice in favour of them from the street to assembly to buy justice for them.
“If the party succeeded in forming the Government in 2022 assembly elections, all the pending issues and concerns of the people would be addressed on a priority basis,” added the leaders.